Shirt.



B. GROSS.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION HLED 00121, 1918.

Patented Apr. 22,1919.

f 1/ wn y g/ Y BLUlVIA GROSS, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SHIRT.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented Apr, 22, 1919.

Application led October 1l, 1918. Serial No. 256,425.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BLUMA Gnoss, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts,

.` of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in shirts and particularly to improvements in outer shirts; and an object of this invention is to provide a shirt by the reversal in position of parts of which pieces of the shirt little exposed to wear may be readily and easily substituted for parts which are nor-v mally exposed to the hardest wear, whereby economy of material and labor s0 necessary in these war-times may be attained.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of this invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, Figure 1 is a front view o'f the shirt, the

- sleeves of which are shown somewhat disproportionately long in order to attain clearness of illustration; Fig. 2 is an elevation of one of the reversible sections detached; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of the bottom part of a shirt embodying a modified form of this invention.

The feature of this invention resides in the manner in whichthe sections a, b, of the front of the shirt A are, at their bottom parts, prepared for reversal or made ready for use as the upper parts of the breast of the shirt, which latter parts are the ones that ordinarily become most quickly soiled and, in the course of time, become most quickly worn from repeated laundrying and rub bing. Referringlmore particularly to Fig. 2, the section a is ordinarily formed, at its top, with a curved edge c along which the collarband Z is sewed, a substantially straight edge e to which the back f is stitched along the shoulder seam g (Fig. l) and a second curved edge h along which the upper edge of the sleeve i is attached. Quite similarly, the upper part of the section b has been cut so as to form correspondingly a collar edge c', a shoulder edge e and a sleeve edge lt. The bottom of the section a', (Fig. 2) is prepared for reversal by forming the edges y', 7c, and m in the lower end of the sections a; and, for a similarpurpose, the lower end of the section b is formed with the corresponding edges j', is', m.

When the upper part of the front of the shirt A has become worn, the sections a, are removed by ripping the collar seams el', the shoulder seams g, the sleeve seams 7? and the side seams a, b. The sections a, b, are now turned end for end and the sections are transposed, that is, the section L is put in the place of the section b and the latter in fitted in place of the section a. The collar-band l is attached to the sections a, b, along the edges j, j', the back f is stitched to these sections along the edges c, 75, the

sleeves t' are fastened in place along the edges m, m', and the side seams a, b', are sewed up again. Although the right-hand section Z) ordinarily carries, at its free (or central) edge Z2, the buttons n, it may also be formed with a series of button-holes n arranged intermediate the buttons n, as is indicated in Fig. 1; and, similarly, on the free edge a of the section a, which ordinarily is formed with a vertical series of button-holes fn. in which engage the buttons n, there might be sewed buttons intermediate the button holes n and arranged to engage in the buttonholes n, after the reversal of the front sections a, Z), has been made; but it seems to me preferable to indicate by suitably small markings n* where the buttons are to be sewn, after the front sections a, Z), have been removed preparatory to reversal, thereby avoiding any objection that may be urged against the -showing of too many or superfluous buttons. After the front sections a, have been removed preparatory to reversal, the buttons a may be cut from olf the section and sewed upon the other section at the points indicated by the small markings nx.

As is clearly indicated in the lower part of Fig. 1, the edges y', j', k, m, m', may be finished or faced with a hem or binding o, which would ordinarily be removed before the collar-band (Z, the back f and the sleeves fz) are stitched to these edges, after the reversal of the sections a, b, as hereinbefore explained.

In order to provide against the objection that the bottom of the front of the shirt A is oddly shaped, the latter may, as shown in Fig. 3, be provided with markings j, lo, m, along which the bottom ends of the front sections ax, bx, would be cut preparatory to their reversal; by thus proceedlng, the shirt A retains its usual shape prior to the reversal of the front sections ax, b".

I claim: at Jersey City, New Jersey, this 27th day A shirt including shirt sections chalaoterof September, A. I). 1918, in the presence of ized in that the latter are prepared for endthe two undersigned Witnesses.

for-end reversa-1 and attachment of their BLUMA GROSS. 5 bottom ends to the other parte of the Shirt VVitneSses:

at the top thereof. SADIE GROSS, In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand ISAAC Gnoss.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

